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Zeev Snir - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Practice Architect at Ness Technologies
Vendor
Responsive support, reliable, and easy setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The scalability of Amazon S3 is good."
  • "Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."

What is our primary use case?

Amazon S3 can be used for central storage, backup, log, and storage.

How has it helped my organization?

The reliability that Amazon S3 has provided has improved organizations.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately 10 years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Amazon S3 is good.

How are customer service and support?

The support from Amazon S3 has been knowledgable and responsive.

I rate the support from Amazon S3 a five out of five.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Amazon S3 is easy, it can be done in less than one day.

What about the implementation team?

We handle the implementation of Amazon S3. We have approximately 40 people that are able to do it.

What was our ROI?

It has been difficult for us to determine ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The license of Amazon S3 is based on volume, capacity, and time. The overall price of the solution could improve. The support has to be added if you want it at an additional cost.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others is to pay attention to the backups and copies in Snapshots.

I rate Amazon S3 a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Head Of Information Technology at Unitech Ltd
Real User
Reliable with high usage
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon S3 is reliable."
  • "Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Amazon S3 for storage. This is a Cloud solution. We have developed a new application which has partly been released to the end customer, but not the complete solution. In the housing market, we have a lot of buying and they use the application to manage their lectures and receipts. This is what we are using Amazon S3 for the storage.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 can improve by decreasing the overall costs.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately one and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not used Amazon S3 extensively, but the usage has been very high.

We have approximately 40 to 50 people using this solution. There might be an increased usage.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted the technical support form Amazon S3.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used other similar solutions to Amazon S3.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation of Amazon S3 is done by a third party.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Amazon S3 could be less expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Helpful documentation, highly scalable, and good technical support
Pros and Cons
  • "The most useful features of Amazon S3 are the intelligent multipart upload."
  • "Amazon S3 could improve by being more secure."

What is our primary use case?

Amazon S3 is our file storage solution. We use it for all of the backups of our storage and databases.

What is most valuable?

The most useful features of Amazon S3 are the intelligent multipart upload.

What needs improvement?

Amazon S3 could improve by being more secure.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for approximately five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon S3 is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have found Amazon S3 very scalable, you can scale it on the fly and it is very easy to do.

Most all the cloud applications that are being used by our developer are using Amazon S3. More than 200 people are using this solution. At this moment we do not plan to increase usage.

How are customer service and support?

I have used the support from Amazon S3 multiple times and they are good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used any other similar solution to  Amazon S3.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Amazon S3 is straightforward and the documentation is very good. You can do the setup of Amazon S3 in a few minutes.

What about the implementation team?

We did the implementation ourselves.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of the Amazon S3 is low. The license model is based on what you use.

What other advice do I have?

If users are looking for highly scalable, competent solutions, then Amazon S3 would be a good choice.

I rate Amazon S3 a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Secure, scalable, and easy to manage and understand
Pros and Cons
  • "It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
  • "We need the mapping to Windows. That feature is needed in S3. That feature is in the Azure cloud where we can map it like a drive. We can map the cloud storage to the effort driving our Windows PC. But Amazon is not providing that feature for the S3 solution."

What is our primary use case?

I am managing the S3 storage solution from Amazon. From Microsoft, I'm managing the Azure administration. I handle that. As a part of that, I need to create the virtual machines, a point to site to VPN and Azure AD, AD synchronization with Windows server, a database server, mail server, and web server. I administrate all that.

We use Amazon S3 for storing files and documents on the cloud. I fill out the user whenever the files they use are downloaded. That is fully automated. After a few days, it can delete it. I've done the policy for the automated deletion.

Amazon S3 is great. We are using it for storage solutions.

How has it helped my organization?

Due to using S3, our data documents are safe and easy to access. It is better to keep them in the cloud as opposed to in our internal drive. You can access them from anywhere. Especially during the pandemic period, we are able to access remotely, as well. So it's good.

What is most valuable?

We are using the basic S3 bucket. It is easy to manage and easy to understand.

What needs improvement?

We need the mapping to Windows. That feature is needed in S3. That feature is in the Azure cloud where we can map it like a drive. We can map the cloud storage to the effort driving our Windows PC. But Amazon is not providing that feature for the S3 solution.

In the next release I would like to see mapping on the Windows machine. In Windows, there are drives right in volumes. We need to map these Amazon S3 storage to the Windows. That usually is available in the Azure. I would like to have that in the Amazon as well.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Amazon S3 for just six months as of now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

In terms of stability, it is good and has no issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We can scale Amazon S3 for storage. We can increase or scale up and we can scale down. It's easy to manage.

I'm happy where I'm at right now. If we need more storage, we will implement. We'll scale it up.

How are customer service and support?

As of now, I haven't needed to contact support. It is really easy to manage. Even for the small issues, we can just Google the issues and find the solution. For complex issues, we may need to contact them, but as of now, I haven't needed to. I haven't faced any issues like that, so I didn't contact support. We have found that there is enough online documentation regarding S3.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We switched because of the security and scalability. It is highly secure because nobody can access it. Before we had solutions using an FTP and SFTP. That protocol is different and we are now using the S3. We need a shared key and an access secret key to access the particular storage. Without that, we cannot access. We cannot do anything. So security is more important. That's why we switched to Amazon S3.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is simple and easy to manage.

It's not actually a deployment. It is a simple step. Within five minutes, we can deploy it.

Our implementation strategy for the solution is based on the user's document files and how much GB they want and how they want to access that particular story's solution. Based on that scenario, I create the S3 bucket on the cloud for the particular users - whoever wants to access that particular S3. I created that particular IM user, the user access for that particular storage. I make an access policy to that particular storage.

What was our ROI?

Our ROI is good based on our usage. We have multiple users who are accessing this S3 storage.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It's a monthly pricing.

We are happy with the pricing.

What other advice do I have?

Amazon S3 is a great solution.

My advice is to have an implementation strategy based on the user usage.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give Amazon S3 an eight.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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reviewer1369422 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Beneficial automation, useful CLI, and simple implementation
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon S3 is easy to use and it is beneficial to use the CLI to make the backups. Since I use the CLI I do not have to do it on a web portal which is a big advantage because everything can be automatized. Automation can be done very well in Amazon S3."
  • "The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file."

What is our primary use case?

I use Amazon S3 mainly for daily backups of our database.

How has it helped my organization?

Amazon S3 has helped our organization because the daily backups can be done automatically with automation. We do not have to spend time on it and I am confident with Amazon S3 in its ability to recover our data.

What is most valuable?

Amazon S3 is easy to use and it is beneficial to use the CLI to make the backups. Since I use the CLI I do not have to do it on a web portal which is a big advantage because everything can be automatized. Automation can be done very well in Amazon S3.

What needs improvement?

The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon S3 for a long time. I used the latest version because the CLI is normally updated.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of the Amazon S3 is good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Amazon S3 is great.

We are a small company and we have approximately five developers that use Amazon S3. We use the solution on a daily basis for hourly backups.

How are customer service and support?

I have used the support from Amazon S3 a long time ago, I have not needed much help. When I did have contact with them there were times it took a while for a response.

I would rate the technical support of Amazon S3 a three out of five.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

The main difference from other solutions I have used is Amazon is the leader, and it has a very large number of zones and capacity, while others can be smaller and can have different options. Not all the options that are available in Amazon S3 are offered by other competitors, but for the main features, most of them are working fine. I have been evaluating two different solutions, one from a French cloud-based company called Scaleway, and the other is peer-to-peer storage.

How was the initial setup?

The installation was simple. Creating a new bucket and deploying it is very straightforward. To make the script deploy a new bucket takes approximately one hour. 

I would rate the initial setup of Amazon S3 a four out of five.

What about the implementation team?

We did the implementation ourselves and we have two developers that do the maintenance of the solution.

What was our ROI?

The return on investment has been very good because the backups of our database are critical for our business to operate.

I would rate the return on investment of Amazon S3 a four out of five.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of the Amazon S3 is reasonable. There are not any licensing costs, they have a pay-as-you-use model. 

When backups are more than 6 months old, I would recommend keeping less of them and storing the remaining ones in Glacier (long-term, cheaper storage).

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have evaluated other options.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others is to separate the buckets project, not to put everything in the same bucket, and be sure to implement IAM rules to avoid problems between users and not to lose any backups. The implementation process is important. 

I rate Amazon S3 an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Google
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reviewer1381938 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT operation manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
The solution's most valuable feature is its Uptime availability, especially for the cloud version
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution's peak-up time is good."
  • "The major challenge is the inability to create more than ten policies."

What is our primary use case?

We are using the solution to secure the content. 

What is most valuable?

The solution's most valuable feature is its Uptime availability, especially for the cloud version. Its peak uptime is good. It offers 99.9% availability.

What needs improvement?

The Folder Access policy needs improvement. They should make it much more user-friendly, then it will be fine. The major challenge is the inability to create more than ten policies. When we want to create folder access, they provide some policy and then give the folder access. There should be an option to have a sub-folder for each folder. They should provide a distribution of access. Presently, we can't access all subfolders at a time.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for three years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the solution's stability as a ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of the solution is ten out of ten. We have more than fifty users of the solution at our company.

How are customer service and support?

When we raise the ticket, we get a response within five to seven days. There needs some improvement.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The setup process is simple as we are using the cloud solution. We configured the setting as per our requirements.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate the solution as one for pricing. It is expensive but much more secure.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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reviewer1975647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
A very strong internet storage solution, with great archival capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "We find the archival capabilities of this solution quite valuable, because we can have set policies of exactly when, and what to archive."
  • "We would like to see improvement in the ability to moves files within this solution. At present the process is not straightforward, and requires us to download files to our micro service service before then uploading into the solution. In addition, the transfer bit rate for the process is very slow."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution as readily available internet storage.

What is most valuable?

We find the archival capabilities of this solution quite valuable, because we can have set policies of exactly when, and what to archive. 

What needs improvement?

We would like to see improvement in the ability to moves files within this solution. At present the process is not straightforward, and requires us to download files to our micro service service before then uploading into the solution. In addition, the transfer bit rate for the process is very slow.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been working with this solution for around five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have found this to be a very stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a very scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

We have found the technical support for this product to be pretty good.

What other advice do I have?

We would recommend potential users of this solution to ensure they have micro-services in place, in order to carry out data transfers.

We would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Team member
Real User
Good cloud infrastructure, good technical support, and is scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature."
  • "The stability of the solution has room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Amazon services to create the SSX and other services.

What is most valuable?

Cloud infrastructure is the most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

We are already utilizing cloud services, and Amazon is providing us with an abundance of options. As we move forward, we must ensure that we are obtaining the best value for our money when it comes to pricing. The price of Amazon S3 has room for improvement.

The current solution is not ideal, as it requires us to log into multiple dashboards and technical services. To improve our centralized monitoring or central idea, we need to create a single centralized system that can provide access to all services.

The stability of the solution has room for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I give the stability a seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I give the scalability an eight out of ten.

We have 50 people using the solution.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support team is good.

How was the initial setup?

Most businesses have different needs, so the solutions we use vary depending on the context and requirements. We can utilize different approaches based on specific circumstances. The initial setup depends on the environment.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

I believe that cloud-based services such as cloud computing and cloud security from Amazon's pipeline services are becoming increasingly popular. These services provide a great technological infrastructure for us and I have no doubts or reservations about them.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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